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Science and empire in the Atlantic world / edited by James Delbourgo and Nicholas Dew.
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects--America.
- Science.
- Science--Social aspects--Europe.
- Science and state--America.
- Science and state.
- Science and state--Europe.
- Science--Social aspects.
- Europe.
- Empiricism.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 365 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Contents:
- Introduction: The Far Side of the Ocean / James Delbourgo, Nicholas Dew 1
- Section I Networks of Circulation 29
- Chapter 1 Controlling Knowledge: Navigation, Cartography, and Secrecy in the Early Modern Spanish Atlantic / Alison Sandman 31
- Chapter 2 Vers la ligne: Circulating Measurements Around the French Atlantic / Nicholas Dew 53
- Chapter 3 Knowing the Ocean: Benjamin Franklin and the Circulation of Atlantic Knowledge / Joyce E. Chaplin 73
- Section II Writing the American Book of Nature 97
- Chapter 4 A New World of Secrets: Occult Philosophy and Local Knowledge in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic / Ralph Bauer 99
- Chapter 5 Tropical Empiricism: Making Medical Knowledge in Colonial Brazil / Junia Ferreira Furtado 127
- Chapter 6 American Climate and the Civilization of Nature / Jan Golinski 153
- Section III Itineraries of Collection 175
- Chapter 7 Empiricism in the Spanish Atlantic World / Antonio Barrera-Osorio 177
- Chapter 8 Fruitless Botany: Joseph de Jussieu's South American Odyssey / Neil Safier 203
- Chapter 9 Atlantic Competitions: Botany in the Eighteenth-Century Spanish Empire / Daniela Bleichmar 225
- Section IV Contested Powers 253
- Chapter 10 The Electric Machine in the American Garden / James Delbourgo 255
- Chapter 11 Diasporic African Sources of Enlightenment Knowledge / Susan Scott Parrish 281
- Chapter 12 Mesmerism in Saint Domingue: Occult knowledge and Vodou on the Eve of the Haitian Revolution / Francois Regourd 311
- Afterword: Science, Global Capitalism, and the State / Margaret C. Jacob 333.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415961264
- 0415961262
- 9780415961271
- 0415961270
- 9780203933848
- 0203933842
- OCLC:
- 123485478
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